Mar 27

Tumblr Surpasses 100 Million Blogs, 44.6 Billion Posts

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Tumblr Surpasses 100 Million Blogs, 44.6 Billion Posts

Tumblr has been gaining in popularity over the past couple of months as they recently improved their iOS and Android applications to support tablets. Today, the company is announcing its popularity has reached an impressive set of milestones.

Tumblr has reached the over 100 million blog milestone and has also reached 44.6 billion posts throughout its entire service. Considering they announced it had 50 million blogs on April 2012, that’s some significant growth. Just how many of these blogs and posts are related to Lonely Virgil are yet to be seen, but we’re sure a good majority of them are. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Spotify Rumored To Be Interested In Video Streaming And Original Content As Well, Facebook Rolling Out Threaded Comments For Popular Profiles And Pages,

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Mar 27

MakerBot To Enable Gamers To 3D-Print Their Own OUYA Android Console Cases

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MakerBot and OUYA announced a partnership today that will allow gamers to print their own OUYA game console cases at home. The partnership will see OUYA create 3D design files for Thingiverse.com, MakerBot’s 3D printing design repository, which are designed to be used with the MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D printer.

The OUYA Game Console Enclosure design created by MakerBot allows OUYA console owners to print their own case, which includes a lid and a spring-loaded button for housing the hardware. They can also be printed on the MakerBot Replicator 2X Experimental 3D printer for those who want to use ABS instead of PLA to print their designs.

It’s a move that brings an advanced level of customization to the OUYA, which is already based on an open-sourced development kit, which, while it limits developers in some ways, allows for a wide range of flexibility. The addition of home 3D-printable hardware elements makes for yet more personalization options, and could make for additional opportunities for game creators to develop case mod tie-ins for their titles.

MakerBot says on its website for the OUYA console kit design that it can be opened with a user’s own 3D printing software to make modifications and additional customizations, so we could see much more than the standard Yves Behar-sourced cube with a rounded edge at the bottom.

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Mar 27

Springpad note-taking service gets interface overhaul, now an even worthier rival to Evernote

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Springpad notetaking platform gets web interface overhaul, now an even worthier rival to Evernote

Springpad may lack Evernote‘s commercial clout, but it makes up for it in a number of ways — not least with free-of-charge features like offline access from its mobile apps (which certain rivals charge for) and Pinterest-style sharing options. The interface hasn’t been a particular strong point, but that could be about to change as version 4.0 has just gone live for at least some users of the web interface. The new UI centers everything on three key buttons along the top:

  • Springs — which gives you immediate access to your latest notes, regardless of which device you made them on
  • Notebooks — for organizing your notes into projects
  • Search & Do — which, needless to say, lets you search your notes, but also suggests activities based to-do tasks you’ve created.

The same, simplified philosophy is due to hit Springpad’s iOS and Android apps soon, although there’s no sign of that happening just yet. In meantime, check out the web interface for yourself at the source link.

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Mar 27

A Horizontal Rainbow Makes For Easier Trips to Oz

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We’ve all seen our share of quadruple rainbows and rainbows from space, but it’s not to often you catch on lying down one the job. A particularly lazy refraction showed up in Paris the other day, but it’s not quite as it seems. More »

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Mar 27

Microsoft Endlessly Disappoints With ‘New’ Windows Phone Apps

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Microsoft Endlessly Disappoints With ‘New’ Windows Phone Apps

Microsoft has breathlessly announced several new game titles for Windows Phone 8. And once again, Redmond continues to disappoint.

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Mar 27

Rubber Barber Eraser Lets You Fix These Characters’ Hairstyles While You Fix Mistakes

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If you have kids it’s never too soon to start thinking about back to school. So keep these adorable Rubber Barber erasers, designed by Chen Lu Wei, in the back of your mind for when it’s time to start shopping for school supplies again. More »

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Mar 27

Korg Kaoss KP3+ and Kaossilator Pro+ Synth Specs, Price and Release Date Announced

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If you like to make your own music and prefer to use synthesizers over analog musical instruments, you will probably be familiar with the name Korg. The company has announced that it has added a pair of the synthesizers to its Kaoss family. They look more like some sort of control panel from the Enterprise than musical instruments.

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The new products include the KP3+ Dynamic Effect/Sampler and the Kaossilator Pro+ Dynamic Phase Synthesizer/Loop Recorder. Both devices promise a user-friendly X-Y touchpad interface that responds to the touch of a finger or a swipe.

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The KP3+ supports touchpad-based control of over 150 sound effects including all of the original KP3 sound effects along with 22 new effect programs. The device also has a looper, a ducking compressor that puts emphasis on the backbeats, and a “Final Break” effect that simulates slowing down a turntable. Here’s just a small sample of what the KP3+ can do:

The device is also a MIDI controller with three controller signals transmitted from the touchpad and data from the slider.

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The Kaossilator Pro+ has 250 sounds inspired by electronic music including 62 sounds inspired by cutting-edge genres. The effects include synth leads, enhanced drum sounds, and highly controllable drum patterns among other features. Korg shows off a bit of the Pro+ in action below:

Both products will be available this April with the KP3+ selling for $349.99(USD) and the Pro+ selling for $399.99.

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Mar 27

200-mph red bullet trains thrill rail-mad Japan

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A Super Komachi bullet train departs from Tokyo Station as trainspotters and families snap photos.

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TOKYO — The crowd lining the end of Tokyo Station’s platform 22 is four people deep.

They’re jostling for position with their cameras — trainspotters, parents, and children alike — to get a shot of Japan’s latest bullet train: the Series E6 Shinkansen, known as the Super Komachi.

They all bought tickets for the privilege of entering this part of the sprawling terminal that serves 380,000 passengers daily, and operator JR East has to deploy extra security guards to keep them a safe distance from the glistening new locomotive.

With services to northern Japan on the Akita Shinkansen Line, the Super Komachi debuted earlier this month as one of Japan’s fastest commercial trains.

It has been traveling at 300 kph (186 mph) and will eventually run at 320 kph (198.8 mph), also the new operational speed of the Series E5 Hayabusa, among the world’s fastest along with France’s TGV.

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Mar 27

Temple Run Makes Its Long-Awaited Debut On Windows Phone

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Temple Run Makes Its Long Awaited Debut On Windows Phone

Temple Run has been making millions of its players endlessly run to see how far they can get with their stolen idol ever since it was originally released back in the summer of 2011 on iOS. Imangi Studios released the Android version of Temple Run several months later in March 27 2012, and exactly one year later, Windows Phone finally gets the Temple Runs.

If you’re a Windows Phone user who is expecting to play Temple Run 2 on your device, you’ll be severely disappointed as this is the original Temple Run that has been released. In other words, don’t expect to endlessly run your way in the great outdoors as you zip-line and minecart your way through the game. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: XCOM: Enemy Unknown Coming To iOS This Summer, PopCap Games’ Solitaire Blitz Jumps From Facebook To iOS,

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Mar 27

Plants vs. Zombies 2 delayed into “early summer”

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As Plants vs. Zombies Adventures launches today on Facebook, developer PopCap has a little bit of bad news for fans of the franchise. Plants vs. Zombies 2 will be ever-so-slightly delayed into the “early summer.” The game was originally planned for a “late spring” launch when the studio announced the game back in August.

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It’s been about three years since the original Plants vs. Zombies game was released, and it won the hearts of casual strategy gamers everywhere. After being ported to almost every single platform, PopCap is ready to release the sequel this summer. No concrete release date has been announced, but “early summer” could mean a late May or June release.

We’re still a couple of months away from that time frame, but gamers are no doubt already marking their calendars. However, details about the sequel are rather scarce, with PopCap only mentioning that the new game would launch with “a bevy of new features, settings and situations,” which obviously isn’t anything to be surprised about.

In the meantime, you can play around with Plants vs. Zombies Adventures on Facebook, which should hold you up until the sequel is released in a few months. The Facebook game takes on a different approach than the original title. This time, the zombies walk along a path, while you must set up plant defenses all along the path to prevent the zombies from passing by and reaching the end.

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Plants vs. Zombies 2 delayed into “early summer” is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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